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Showtime Lady Michelle Obama started the year off with bangs. But recently, while giving a kickoff speech at Bowie State University in Maryland,the First Lady unveiled a side-swept, almost bang-less 'do

FLOTUS's bangs made their first appearance merely before the inauguration anniversary in January, and then they had a meager run of about iv months. We knew the cease was near, though: In an ET interview at the beginning of April, the Starting time Lady said, "They're starting to grow out, getting a footling irritating, but it's OK."

Ah, yep: the dreaded blindside-growing-out period. The First Lady weathered it amazingly. Just if y'all're in the center of that painful time and you feel like yous have a heavy, hapless mop resting on your forehead, fearfulness not! Effort these styling tips and tricks direct from TRESemmé stylist Jeanie Syfu, who's worked with celebs including Sandra Bullock, Kristin Cavallari, and Lily Allen.

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Keep visiting the hair salon
If you're trying to grow out blunt bangs—a style made popular past celebs like Jessica Biel, Taylor Swift, and Sophia Bush—let them abound past your eyebrows, and then have your stylist function your pilus at the side and cut the bangs on an angle: from shorter at the part to longer at the side then that they alloy in at the edges. And Syfu says to be certain to ask your stylist to texturize the bangs: Blunt ones are really heavy and merely lay apartment, Syfu explains, so your stylist should cut vertically into the line of the bangs to remove some of that majority. "It's going to give you a lot more motility and softness equally you grow your bangs out," says Syfu. That'll brand it much easier to continue them to the side or style them, say, into a cute little volumized bump once they're halfway grown out.

Try a messy side braid or twist
Use a teasing comb at the front of your caput to rummage your bangs in with the rest of your hair, says Syfu, and then make a side office. Complect or twist all of the pilus diagonally back, starting at the part and going all the way behind your ear. Secure it with bobby pins, and then pull the rest of your pilus into a ponytail or bun. "It works all-time when you lot just article of clothing it a little messy," says Syfu, who created the side twists at the Jenny Packham spring show, beneath.

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Make those bangs (temporarily) disappear
This i'southward for the middle-role kind of daughter: Blow dry your hair with it parted in the center and your bangs apartment to each side, "nigh blending into the length of your pilus to frame your confront," says Syfu. (Use a product that's going to concur it—Syfu recommends TRESemmé 24 Hour Body Foaming Mousse, $v, available at drugstores nationwide.) Then pull the bangs back and spike them with 1 bobby pin at each temple, letting your longer hair fall over top, "and then that it basically just looks similar you have long hair with a middle function," says Syfu.

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photo: TRESemmé

Go a grip with headbands
A no-sideslip headband that wraps effectually your head volition make a topknot or ponytail look way more polished, says Syfu. She likes Goody Ouchless hairwraps, $4.35 for six or $8.65 for two packs of 6, Soap.com. They keep your bangs in place—perfect for a run or for just hanging out with the girls. A fancier, jeweled headband or headwrap tin do double-duty—hide your bangs and accessorize a work or nighttime-out await.

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Alison Goldman is a writer and editor based in Chicago. She previously served equally the lifestyle editor at Boston Globe Media's Boston.com and has likewise worked at WomensHealthMag.com and Glamour. Read more of her work at alisonmgoldman.com or follow her @alisongoldman on Twitter and @alisonmgoldman on Insta.